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Tom Krazit / CNET News:
Google thought Michael Jackson traffic was attack — Google has confirmed that the surge of Michael Jackson-related searches on Google News Thursday was first interpreted as an attack on its service. — Google News was inaccessible for some people Thursday afternoon right as rumors …
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Nicki Dugan / Yodel Anecdotal:
Losing Michael Jackson — It's been a rough week, especially for those of us who grew up in the 1970s. First, we lost Ed McMahon, who we always hoped would show up at our doorstep with a big check. Then, came news of Farrah Fawcett, who always got the bad guy and launched a hair revolution among us.
Los Angeles Times:TV misses out as gossip website TMZ reports Michael Jackson's death first
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Connie Loizos / PE Hub Blog:
The True Story of True Ventures — San Francisco-based True Ventures emerged on the venture scene in 2005 and its way of doing business — focusing on seed-stage startups that it can afford to back for the long haul — quickly resonated with LPs. Not only did they give the firm $155 million …
Eliot Van Buskirk / Epicenter:
Winning Teams Join to Qualify for $1 Million Netflix Prize — The Netflix Prize, a computing challenge that's been compared to scaling Mount Everest and flummoxed programmers for more than three years, has been summited. — Two front runners in the contest, Team Pragmatic Theory and Team Bellkor in Chaos …
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Scott M. Fulton, III / BetaNews:
Firefox 3.5 gears up for a possible Tuesday public release — A Mozilla spokesperson confirmed to Betanews early this evening that, if all pans out as planned, the organization will officially release the Firefox 3.5 Web browser to the general public as soon as Tuesday, June 30.
The Boy Genius / Boy Genius Report:
BlackBerry Tour hitting Verizon Wireless on July 12th, selling for $199? — Well, you heard that right peoples. It looks like Verizon Wireless is gearing up to launch the much-awaited BlackBerry Tour on July 12th. The best part? It appears it's going to go for $199 with a two-year agreement according to Verizon's testman site.
Michael Masnick / Techdirt:
Mythbusters' Adam Savage Discovers Insane Roaming Fees: $11,000 iPhone Bill For A Few Hours Surfing — Every few months or so there's an article somewhere about an insane phone bill that someone gets because they took their phone out of the country without recognizing the insanity that is international roaming rates.
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Philip Lam / all things Pre:
Sprint throws a punch at the iPhone and AT&T — Here we have an ad from Sprint that's directed at early 1st gen iPhone adaptors. Bringing out the fact that the Pre can run “multiple applications” and save you $1200 in the long run, that's if you drop your 1st gen iPhone and come over to Sprint for the Pre.
Ina Fried / CNET News:
Thumbing Windows 7 onto Netbooks — Microsoft has shown Windows 7 running on Netbooks ever since it introduced the operating system last fall. However, helping consumers get it on their notebooks has proven more tricky. — Microsoft is considering offering Windows 7 on a thumb drive …
Ben Kuchera / Ars Technica:
Mole exclusive: PS3, 360 price drops coming this fall — Our favorite inside source has given us a heads-up on what to expect from both Sony and Microsoft this year in hardware packages and pricing. The path to the holidays is a rosy one, with more hard drive space inside the systems at a lower price.
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Kasper Jade / AppleInsider:
Briefly: more affordable iMacs from Apple expected by fall — Apple, which recently shaved down the cost of its popular Mac notebook lines, remains on track to pass on similar treatment to its all-in-one desktop line by this fall. — Back in April, AppleInsider reported that the Mac maker …
Zachary M. Seward / Nieman Journalism Lab:
Link from Yahoo breaks traffic records at New York Times — Behold the power of Yahoo: A link at the top of the site's front page helped send more than 9 million page views to The New York Times in the span of two hours last week, breaking records for web traffic at the newspaper.
Frederic Lardinois / ReadWriteWeb:
So Much for Video Conversations: Seesmic Puts Its Video Service on Hold — When you hear the name Seesmic today, chances are that you are thinking about a Twitter client, but once upon a time, Seesmic was a much-hyped online “video conversation” service. Now, however, after a recent redesign …
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HipMojo.com, CenterNetworks, VentureBeat, Mixergy.com, CloudAve, NewTeeVee and TheNextWeb.com
Cyril Altmeyer / Reuters:
Google CEO says worst of crisis is over — * CEO says “reasonable to be optimistic for 2010” — * Sees U.S. recovery starting in autumn — A U.S. recovery is likely to begin this autumn, the worst of the crisis has passed and it is “reasonable to be optimistic for 2010” …
Charles Eicher / The Register:
Copyfraud: Poisoning the public domain — How web giants are stealing the future of knowledge — Special report The public domain is the greatest resource in human history: eventually all knowledge will become part of it. Its riches serve all mankind, but it faces a new threat.
Ted Landau / Macworld:
Bugs & Fixes: iPhone 3GS signal strength oddities — I warn you at the outset. This is not going to be one of those Bugs & Fixes with a neatly defined set of symptoms and a iron-clad solution. This one's a bit messy. Here's the deal: — Almost immediately after getting my new iPhone 3GS …
internetnews.com:
EMC Dangles the Bait for Data Domain a Bit Longer — With the bid set to expire on Monday, the storage giant extends bid for Data Domain another three weeks. — With the deadline for its offer looming, EMC decided to extend its $30 per share deal to Data Domain until midnight, July 10.
Jason Kincaid / TechCrunch:
Adding Insult To Injury: MySpace Botches Layoffs — When you've just gotten laid off, the last thing you want to hear is that you can't cash your last check because of one final payroll screwup. But that's apparently exactly what's going on over at MySpace, which laid off over 30% of its staff …
John Leyden / The Register:
Blue chip FTP logins found on cybercrime server — Monster breach exposes Amazon and BBC to compromise — Security researchers have found a treasure chest of FTP passwords, some from high profile sites, on an open cybercrime server. — Jacques Erasmus, CTO at security tools firm Prevx …
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Joseph Tartakoff / paidContent:
Liberty Media CEO Hints At Interest In AOL — Is Liberty Media (NSDQ: LINTA) once again interested in purchasing part of AOL? In an interview with CNBC this morning (via Tech Trader Daily), Liberty Media CEO Greg Maffei (pictured) was asked whether it was “just a nonsense rumor” …
Liz Gannes / NewTeeVee:
YouTube Doubles Upload Size Limit — YouTube has doubled the size of standard uploads for regular-Joe account holders to 2 GB from 1 GB. The company told us this afternoon the move was in order to accommodate users' HD uploads. But despite the size increase, non-partner videos are still limited to 10 minutes in length.
Alan Cowell / New York Times:
Is Free News Really Worth the Price? — PARIS — If you are reading this, I am doing my job. — Roughly speaking, that is the compact that has underpinned the ties that bind those who write the news to those who read it. — But as the world hurtles into a digital era, other questions intrude …
Stacey Higginbotham / GigaOM:
Analyst: Nokia to Offer an Android Netbook in 2010 — Nokia plans to launch an ARM-based netbook that relies on the Google-pioneered Android mobile operating system in 2010, writes Lazard Capital Markets analyst Daniel Amir in a research note issued this morning.
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